Sightings Archive

Redmires conduit: Golden Plover - 3 ; Lapwing - 17 - 14 adults, 4 juveniles ; Mallard - 2 - female & duckling, in river at western end ; Red Grouse - 9 - male, female & 4 juveniles ; Ring Ouzel - 1 - calling from tree at western end ; Tufted Duck - 3 - male, female & juvenile in small reservoir at western end ; Skylark - 2 ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - western end

Ringinglow: Pied Wagtail - 1 - Norfolk Arms ; Mistle Thrush - 2 - NA ; Meadow Pipit - 1 - NA ; Swallow - 2 - NA

Silver Wood/Old Ravenfield: Grasshopper Warbler - 1 - still reeling on Pingle Lane Tip

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 4

Bingham Park: Moorhen - 1 - on nest on lower pond ; Blue Tit - 1 - visiting nest just above lower pond ; Nuthatch - 1 - visiting nest site

Ecclesall: Starling - 5 - pair fledged 3 young from gap below gutting - how I miss being woken up every morning at 5.10am!

Keppels Field: Skylark - 1 - singng ; Swift - 4 ; Yellowhammer - 1 - singing

Meersbrook Park: Song Thrush - 1 - Heard ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Heard

Orgreave Lakes: Cuckoo - 1 ; Grey Partridge - 2 ; Arctic Tern - 8 - North at 07:00 ; Common Sandpiper - 1

R Don, Rotherham Centre; Chantry Bridge: Sand Martin - 12+ - over area; birds seen entering 3-4 holes

Redmires Top Res: Greenfinch - 2 - on roadside, carrying nesting material

Scholes Coppice: 319 - 1 - Low over wood hunting ; Kestrel - 2 - with calls from pos nest site? ; Tawny Owl - 1 - calling @18:29

Sothall: Swift - 2 - First of the year over the house, about three weeks later than recent averages.

Stubley Hollow: 319 - 1 - Swallow - 9 ; Chiffchaff- 2 ; Blackcap - 2 ; Whitethroat - 2

Wire Mill Dam: Grey Heron - 1 ; Mallard - 1+ - female with 8 ducklings - how many will survive the heron?

Wyming Brook: Wood Warbler - 4 - Along Wyming Brook Drive from top car park to Reddicar Clough.

Burbage Valley: Meadow Pipit - 1 ; Whinchat - 2 1m 1f ; Stonechat - 1m ; Ring Ouzel - 2m plus 1? ; Willow Warbler - several singing, not seen ; Pheasant - 1m - on lower slopes of the edge ; Wren - 1 seen, several singing ; Carrion Crow - 2 ; Reed Bunting - 3, 2m 1f ; Meadow Pipit - 6+ - one with silver ring on right leg ; Reed Bunting - 4 - 3 Males & female ; Willow Warbler - 3 ; Ring Ouzel - 2 - males ; Whinchat - 1 ; Stonechat - 2 - males ; Cuckoo - 1 - heard calling from the direction of the plantation ; Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1

Centenary Riverside: Song Thrush - 2 - Singing ; Whitethroat - 3 - Singing , alarm call ; Blackcap - 1 - Singing ; Goldfinch - 5 ; Black-headed Gull - 1 - Over ; Reed Warbler - 1 - Singing ; Chaffinch - 2 - 1 Singing, 1 alarm call. ; Robin - 2 - Singing

Dore: Nuthatch - 2 - taking food into garden nest-box ; Starling - 2 - taking food into neighbour's roof-space. ; Great Tit - 2 - taking food into garden nest-box.

Longshaw: Siskin - 2 - males on feeders, Longshaw Lodge ; Swallow - 3 ; Garden Warbler - 1 - singing near entrance off Grindleford Rd ; Mallard - 15+ - 2 females with broods of 6 & 7 ducklings

Low Moor, Upper Midhope: Osprey - 1 - flew east at 10:15

Middleton Moor: Sedge Warbler - 1 - singing and doing display flight

Padley: Reed Bunting - 1 - male

Padley Gorge: Pied Flycatcher - 5 - 1 male nr box 1, male & female entering box 3 - male with silver ring on right leg, male nr box 6, male nr track to Bolehill Quarry ; Pied Flycatcher - 5 - ringed male ; Spotted Flycatcher - 1 - nr box 3 ; 319 - 1 - perched on branch & then flew off through the trees ; Cuckoo - 1 - heard calling ; Nuthatch - 2 ; Wood Warbler - 2 - One singing at top of “ramp??? to Lawrence Field , one calling near???elbow “ in path

R Don, Norfolk Bridge: Lesser Black-backed Gull - c50 - perceived influx. One colour ring, not read. ; Herring Gull - c20 - mainly immatures, a few adults

R Sheaf, Heeley: Grey Wagtail - 1

Ringinglow: Swallow - 1 - near Norfolk Arms

Sothall: Starling - 10+ - first juveniles fledged in the area. ; Great Tit - 9 - Brood of 7 seven fledged early morning. 19 days after hatching, matching the species average exactly.

Stocksbridge/Stone Moor area: Pied Wagtail - 1 ; Goldfinch - 3 ; Greenfinch - 1 ; Linnet - 4 ; Meadow Pipit - 4 ; Skylark - 1 ; Lapwing - 15+ - in field at bottom of moor ; Curlew - 2 - flying around area calling ; 319 - 1 - flew from ground into large tree in field at bottom of moor ; Red Kite - 1 - flew over from N.NE.circled area for about 10 mins. then left towards Bradfield ; Willow Warbler - 04-May - all singing in small mixed wood on moor ; Wren - 1 ; Chaffinch - 3 ; Carrion Crow - 3 ; Rook - 22